The massive New York Public Library cuts didn’t happen.  Huzzah!

• Beck designs the latest issue of Zoetrope: All Story.

• Colson Whitehead is headed to the World Series of Poker.

• Sean H. Doyle is interviewed. (Read his Sunday Story from May.)

• Levi Asher digs into his high school sketchbook to help promote his latest e-book, Chiaroscuro: Assorted Literary Essays. Richard Hell, Stevie Nicks, and Dee Dee Ramone make appearances.